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Radishes by Lorna Crozier

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19 August 2011

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Radishes
Lorna Crozier

Radishes flip their skirts in the wind
like a line of chorus girls
throw them over their heads.

If they were singers
they’d be the Andrews sisters.
If they had jobs
they’d be nurses who drive
red sports cars after work.

Every spring you put up with
their flirtations
for the crunch between your teeth
the quick surprise
of rain and fire
they’ve saved all season
just for you.

MARGINALIA

Radish and goat’s cheese. I am wondering if they will taste good together.

ABOUT LORNA CROZIER

Lorna Crozier’s latest poetry books is God of Shadows. An Officer of the Order of Canada she has received three awards for lifetime achievement, including BC’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award. Three-time winner of the Pat Lowther Award and four-time nominee for the Governor-General’s Award, which she won in 1992, she was recently honoured with China’s Chen Zi Ang Award for best international poet published in 2017 in China’s biggest literary periodical. Her 2020 memoir,

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